They reckon if you can remember the 90s you weren't really there, but Stoke City fan Neil James can... and he has a book out to prove it.

For many young Stokies, the Potters are all about life in the Premier League. However, for Neil and others of his generation, the 90s was a great time to be a Stoke City fan, and his book, Stoke and I: The Nineties, recalls some great highs and depressing lows in the Potters story.

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Act in haste...

... repent in leisure. That’s certainly a sentiment Stoke chairman Peter Coates has taken to heart since his decision to sack then-Potters boss Alan Ball immediately after a defeat at Wigan. He has been recalling the episode. READ THE FULL STORY

Stat attack...

Who has provided the most assists for Stoke so far this season and who has committed the most fouls? Who is on course for the first yellow card ban for amassing five bookings and who is leading the way in the goalscoring charts? All you need to know... IT’S ALL HERE

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Ladies' day...

Stoke City Ladies are in FA Cup action at their Community Drive HQ in Norton this afternoon (2pm). If you are at a loose end, why not pop along and support them. Knot FM presenter Russell Dutton did just that this time last year, and now he’s a convert to the women’s game. The ladies are up against Norton and Stockton Ancients.READ THE FULL STORY

Stoke City Ladies celebrate during their 7-3 victory over Bradford City at Community Drive. The win saw the Potters remain top of the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier Division and extend their unbeaten start to the season to five matches. (Image: Phil Greig / Stoke City FC)

Man up, guys...

We’ve been comparing Gary Rowett’s record as Stoke boss over 12 games with some of his predecessors, even the more illustrious ones. You’ll be surprised as the result. READ THE FULL STORY

Gary Rowett. (Image: Nathan Stirk)

Ireland: "I was stuck in a rut..."

Stephen Ireland has been talking about his time at Stoke City and the frustration he felt as a bit-part player. The 32-year-old midfielder this week joined Bolton on a short-term contract, and he told the Bolton News...

I got stuck in a rut. You’d come off the bench for six minutes, not play the next week, then get 15 minutes – and that becomes your story. Rather than say ‘hang on a minute, I’m worth more than this’ you just accept it and go along with it. You get complacent. It becomes a job. I don’t want to do that to myself. If I get to that stage again, I’ll pack it in and stay at home to look after my kids. At this point in my career and with everything that has happened I just want to play. I want to play loads and loads of football. I want the feeling of walking off the pitch and being sat in the dressing room with your legs throbbing. I want to be around the training ground, in among the lads working hard, the whole team ethos, because for too long I haven’t had it, and I missed it...

Stephen Ireland at Old Trafford in January in one of his final appearances for the club (Image: Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

Fans get down to business...

With no game to discuss this week, we’ve asked out fans’ panel to review Stoke City’s summer transfer business and also pick out their surprise of the season so far and best Potters’ XI when everyone is fit. READ THE FULL STORY

Stoke City manager Gary Rowett with fans at the New York Stadium.

Stick with it, Saido...

The words “perfect” and “Saido Berahino” were unlikely to be said in the same breath just a few short months ago, but how times have changed for the reborn striker. Stoke boss Gary Rowett has been talking about the one-time £12m misfit, and he did used the “P” word. But there were a couple of warnings for Saido too. READ THE FULL STORY

Saido Berahino in action for Stoke City against Bolton at the bet365 Stadium. (Image: Phil Greig / Stoke City FC)

The fantastic four...

Stoke legend Mike Pejic reckons four key players brought to the club in the summer are giving the Potters a balance they’ve lacked for far too long. READ THE FULL STORY

Benik Afobe celebrates his first Stoke City goal at the bet365 Stadium, against Brentford, with Tom Ince. (Image: Steve Bould)

Wembley way...

The stats experts at FiveThirtyEight have built a model which calculates the percentage chance every Championship side has of winning silverware this season, and it seems Stoke City are still in with a shout. However, they will have to go about it the hard way... via the playoffs. West Brom are predicted to win the title, with Sheffield United in the second automatic promotion spot. But the Potters sneak into fifth place, meaning they just have to overcome Leeds, Tony Pulis’s Middlesbrough (equal third) and Brentford (sixth) to return to the top-flight at the first time of asking. Easy, eh? But another day out at Wembley would be great...

Stoke City fans outside Wembley Stadium, prior to kick-off

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If you throw enough mud...

This is how Stoke spent an international break in the autumn of 2006, the first few months of Tony Pulis’s return.

Strewth...

If anyone says you can count on Crouchy, just show them this...

You plonker, Crouchy!

Veteran Stoke striker Peter Crouch is one of most media savvy operators in football, but it wasn’t always that way. In an interview for Esquire magazine’s regular What I’ve Learned feature, he says...

When I started out nobody told you how to do an interview. That’s how I ended up on the front-page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin. That picture has haunted me for a long time. I was only 19, playing at QPR and it was taken just outside Loftus Road. Still, when it came to interviews I just tried to be myself. I always felt the more you were fed lines the worse you came off.

Scary...

Peter Crouch has always seemed too nice a guy to be a footballer, and certainly too nice to mix it with some of the game’s hard men. And in his latest BBC podcast, the Stoke striker has revealed which rival scared him the most during his lengthy career... the former Wolves defender Kevin Muscat. He says: “Kevin Muscat scared me. You know people say ‘I’m going to break your legs’ - but when he said it, you genuinely believed him.”

Stat'll do nicely...

We’ve taken advantage of the international break to delve into stats that show Stoke’s important summer transfer business, why Joe Allen looks like he’s always getting his foot in and how relegation has affected gates at the bet365 Stadium. READ THE FULL STORY

Stoke City midfielder Joe Allen in action against Norwich City at Carrow Road. (Image: Phil Greig / Stoke City FC)

Calm down, Crouchy...

Stoke striker Peter Crouch is married to model Abbey Clancy. And the big man has revealed how he was concerned for their future when she signed up to take part in Strictly Come Dancing a few years ago and was paired off with a handsome Russian dancer. READ THE FULL STORY

Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch.

Clucas update...

We had been expecting to see summer signing Sam Clucas make his first competitive appearance for the Potters at Morecambe on Tuesday in the Checkatrade Trophy, but he pulled out at the last moment. So when will we see the £6m man in action? READ THE FULL STORY

Sam Clucas is handed his Stoke City shirt after completing a deadline day move from Swansea. (Image: Phil Greig)

Pain game...

More and more fans have been asking the same question of late... whatever happened to Ibrahim Afellay? Now we have the answer, and sadly it is not good news for the ex-Barcelona midfielder. READ THE FULL STORY

Revealed - Gary Rowett's nickname...

We’ve caught up with coach Callum Davidson to ask how he’s settling in at Stoke - and whether his friendship is surviving working with Gary Rowett. He also revealed a wee secret about the Potters boss...

Gaz is fine, it’s not too bad. He’s given me tea a couple of times so he’s all right.

It’s been really good. He works extremely hard and he’s very, very thorough. I knew his nickname when we played together at Leicester was Textbook Terry, because he used to do everything by the book.

He’s very methodical. He always thinks of things and he’s always thinking of other things. It’s really good to work together and a football coach to discuss football a lot. I’m enjoying it.